The Common’s annual Author Postcard Auction is back for its eleventh year! The Postcard Auction offers the chance to bid on a hand-written, personalized postcard just for you, from a ton of great authors, musicians, and more: Tony Kushner, Joy Williams, Read more >
Jeff Sharlet, author of The Undertow, and one of our very best (and bravest) writers engaging with American fascism as it actually exists on the ground, has done the ugly work of reading Pete Hegseth’s book, The War on Warriors. Read more >
Lend us your ears, readers. Today, our friends at Libfro.fm have released a list of the year’s bestselling audiobooks. Data was based on reporting from more than 3,000 independent bookstores. Cake-taking titles span the genre gamut, from romance to mystery Read more >
The winner of the 2024 Booker Prize is Samantha Harvey for her novel Orbital (Grove Press). The announcement was made by Edmund de Waal, Chair of the 2024 judges, in a ceremony in London, on November 12. de Waal described the Read more >
It’s a week after America’s latest, and far from greatest, election, a day that many of us are still processing. I have so much to say, as we all do, and I’ll say it elsewhere soon. But for the moment, Read more >
It’s the week after the election. You’re inundated with takes, ranging from the knee-jerk-libidinal appeal to the sagely analytical post-mortem. More are certainly coming. Writers be writing. But in the meantime, you’ve got a bed to get out of. Breakfast Read more >
Good news for readers, literary magazine supporters, quiz-lovers, and weirdos: n+1‘s Bookmatch is back! If you make a donation of any amount to n+1 in the month of November, you can take a short, highly entertaining multiple choice quiz (sample Read more >
Dorothy Allison, the lesbian feminist activist, beacon, poet, parent, and award-winning author of novels like Bastard Out of Carolina and Cavedweller, has died at 75. Allison wrote about a queer, poor South with dynamism and ferocious love. Her books tangoed Read more >
Today, the American Library in Paris announced the winner of their 2024 Book Award, which recognizes titles originally published in English “that best realizes new and intellectually significant ideas about France, the French people, or encounters with French culture.” This Read more >
Next week, the UK’s most prestigious book prize, the Booker, will announce its 2024 winner. Have you placed your bets yet? An important reminder for those keeping track: do not bet on “Paul” to win the Booker Prize this year. Read more >
It’s an ugly day, and I’m finding it hard to face what’s next. The clarity is jarring and immense, and the fear, grief, and rage are feeling larger than I can hold. I’m reminding myself continually that I cannot and Read more >
November is here! And, of course, for American readers today is also Election Day. For many of us, this is a day of nervous anticipation at best and heart-thumping anxiety at the fear of civil war at worst, and it Read more >
Last Monday, we published an open letter signed by over a 1000 prominent authors—including Percival Everett, Sally Rooney, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Annie Ernaux, Arundhati Roy, Peter Carey, Kamila Shamsie, Jhumpa Lahiri, Téa Obreht, Jia Tolentino, Rachel Kushner, Jericho Brown, China Read more >
Suzanne Nossel, the CEO of PEN America, has announced plans to leave her position. This follows a year of intense criticism over her leadership of the “free speech organization,” which has refused to take a stand in the face of Read more >
Lionel Shriver, Lee Child, Bernard Henri-Lévy, Herta Müller, Simon Schama, Howard Jacobson, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Bret Stephens, Yossi Klein Halevi, and David Mamet are among the writers who have joined entertainment industry figures Mayim Bialik, Debra Messing, Julianna Margulies, Scooter Read more >
What is a witch? Unruly, ungovernable. A woman, too sexual or strong-willed for the times. Witch was historically an epithet, given to one who knows the body, the earth, the stars, or even her own mind better than polite society Read more >
November is here, and what a wild November it already seems it will be, particularly for those of us in the United States bracing for the aftermath of our presidential election, for there will almost certainly be chaos regardless of Read more >
In a ceremony today in Montreal, Jury Chair Rana Mitter announced the winner of the 2024 Cundill History Prize, which honors books that “speak to major issues in the present day.” This year’s winner, judged on “historical scholarship, originality, literary Read more >
This week, many readers were shocked to learn that two major papers will not be endorsing a presidential candidate this election cycle—a decision made at the bequest of two billionaires with estate tax in the game. Jeff Bezos, owner of Read more >
October, incredibly, is nearly over, though the end of the month is often just what we look forward to most: Halloween, Samhain, reflections on the passage of time and life alike. (And, because it’s inescapable this year, the election, though Read more >
